Centauri Genetics
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| Centauri Genetics | |
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| Requires | Centauri Meditation, Retroviral Engineering |
| Leads to | Centauri Psi |
| Unit | Locusts of Chiron |
| Facility | Brood Pit |
| Secret Project | The Pholus Mutagen |
| +1 mineral production in fungus | |
Remember, genes are not blueprints. This means you can’t, for example,
insert “the genes for an elephant’s trunk” into a giraffe and get a
giraffe with a trunk. There are no genes for trunks. What you can do
with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance,
we can in theory splice the native plants’ talent for nitrogen fixation
into a terran plant.
- —Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
- “Nonlinear Genetics”
- —Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
The first contacts with Planetary sentience during research on Centauri Meditation caused widespread excitement among the scientific community. They propose using new Retroviral Engineering techniques to unravel Centauri Genetics—the structural blueprint of native organisms.
